Use WP-Crontrol to keep track of Akismet

June 18, 2008 @ 5:20 am · Tags: ,

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Taking control of WP-Cron using WP-Crontrol

If you’re using Akismet to tackle spam on WordPress, there are a number of statistics available to you about your current spam situation. These are all available in the Comments page of your blog, but who wants to go there every day to check up on things. By taking control of WordPress Cron with WP-Crontrol and a couple lines of code, you can receive this information sent by mail every day.

Read the rest of this entry »

Using WordPress Cron and WP-Crontrol to make you post more

June 16, 2008 @ 5:32 am · Tags: ,

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Taking control of WP-Cron using WP-Crontrol

The new version of WP-Crontrol allows you to add new cron entries with code. This allows you to write code that will repeatedly be executed without actually touching any .PHP files. Below, I present a way to utilize this functionality to remind you to post something if you haven’t done so in the past two days.

Read the rest of this entry »